Countries
Cambodia
  
European Union, Malta
  
National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
  
Malta
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Australia, France, United States of America
  
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
National Council for the Maltese Language
  
Interesting Facts
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
  
- Maltese language is the only semitic language written in Latin characters.
- Maltese language has borrowed many loan words from English, Italian and French.
  
Similar To
Lao Language
  
Western Arabic Dialects
  
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
  
Roman Languages
  
Alphabets in
Khmer-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Maltese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Khmer
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
ND
  
Ħello
  
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
  
Grazzi
  
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
  
Kif int?
  
Good Night
ND
  
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
Good Evening
ND
  
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
Good Afternoon
ND
  
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
  
Good Morning
ND
  
L-għodwa t-tajba
  
Please
ND
  
Jekk jogħġbok
  
Sorry
ND
  
Skużani!
  
Bye
ND
  
Ċaw
  
I Love You
ND
  
Inħobbok ħafna
  
Excuse Me
ND
  
Skużi!
  
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
  
Qormi
  
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
  
Malta
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
26
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
  
Żejtun
  
Where They Speak
Vietnam
  
Malta
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
24
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Western Khmer
  
Not Present
  
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million
  
99+
0.52 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
13.00 million
  
99+
0.52 million
  
99+
Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
  
Malti
  
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
  
Malti
  
French Name
khmer central
  
maltais
  
German Name
Kambodschanisch
  
Maltesisch
  
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
  
Maltese
  
Origin
14
  
c. 1470
  
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
North Abric
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
  
Maltese
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Maltese Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
km
  
mt
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
khm
  
mlt
  
ISO 639 2/B
khm
  
mlt
  
ISO 639 3
khm
  
mlt
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
khme1253
  
malt1254
  
Linguasphere
Not Available
  
12-AAC-c
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Synthetic
  
Khmer and Maltese Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Khmer and Maltese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Khmer and Maltese language. Khmer word for "Hello" is ND or Maltese word for "Thank You" is Grazzi. Find more of such common Khmer Greetings and Maltese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Khmer vs Maltese Difficulty
The Khmer vs Maltese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Khmer Alphabets and Maltese Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Khmer and Maltese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Khmer and Maltese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Khmer is 44 weeks while to learn Maltese time required is 30 weeks.